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  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  completely missed this season and now I can't believe my eyes! How is Taylor, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially ... anonymous commenter asked, I had a question about cheerleading. I haven't had ... -requisite to have been a cheerleader to try out for the MIT squad. No, you don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  frat where you know no one. Yeah, don't let anybody tell you what "social ... seriously. Freshman year would have been a lot more difficult for me if I hadn't ... , um, buy the store brand pasta or whatever. 10. I still don't know how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  !) French exam, but that doesn't mean I need to wake up any earlier than 11 ... subjects when they aren't sure what they want to study as upperclassmen. And while this isn't the approach most advertised to incoming freshmen, even

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the next four years. These days, you don't have to travel all the way to Cambridge to buy an MIT t-shirt -- the power of the Internet! Yes, over at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... challenge and a lot less color. Roli asked: Hi Jessie, I haven't followed

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  saying that every female "thing" shouldn't be admitted. It doesn't seem to ... suppose he could be and we won't ever know since the comment was anonymous ... minority and I don't intend to speak for them. I don't think gender should

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  World couldn't pronounce the Nahuatl word "ahuacatl," so they simply chose ... school, so I didn't realize that anything was really out of the ordinary. Anyway, she didn't really say anything, when I walked in, but merely thrust

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  your nametag. 2. Have a good handshake. It shouldn't be weak and you shouldn't break their bones. Hold it for a few seconds while making eye ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but we don't yet have a mail date set for this year. Just wanted to clarify

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  . Furthermore, if your interests don't align with an organization and you pursue ... down! You probably shouldn't tell us if you failed the medical boards, though, Alex.) The admissions staff doesn't have some set list of priority

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo ... whatnot. This weekend in Maine was fun, even though the weather wasn't good for skiing, which I don't mind, since I'm not big on low

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  doesn't even live in Pennsylvania when he's representing them in the US ... premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2, which Matt's friend Ankur '03 is on. I don't ... didn't to that because I scored free tickets to the BSO courtesy of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  supportive comments. You guys got me through today - I seriously don't know ... one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but ... I haven't gotten a tube yet, should I assume that I have been rejected

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  doesn't believe that I care about physical education, despite my previous ... Thursday from 12 to 1, I am in the T Club Lounge, sprawled on purple yoga mats that probably haven't been cleaned for years, trying to undo the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  Turns out that Anthony isn't the only one who loves Amtrak. I called them yesterday and their very friendly customer service people helped me change my reservations because I found out that my bio recitation had been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  performance?" A 720 is fine! Don't give it another thought. Remember that ... . ------------------------ Rob wrote: "What if an applicant doesn't have five meaningful activities ... admissions committee? I don't want to put down clubs I belong to that only meet

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  's Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD program. So I guess it wasn't a total waste ... to bottom. Now, if everybody did that every once in a while, wouldn't ... people don't agree with me (and it's easier to clean a suite kitchen shared

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005